Abstract: Reports of waterskiing-related injuries are limited in the medical literature. The authors report a case of a unique waterskiing injury that progressed into a necrotizing foot infection in a well-controlled insulin-dependent diabetic. This case shows that...
Diabetes
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) Research for Diabetes.
Effect of hyperbaric oxygen on cardiac neural regulation in diabetic individuals with foot complications.
Abstract: There are relatively few effective methods to treat autonomic neuropathy in patients with diabetes mellitus. Our aim was to test the hypothesis that hyperbaric oxygen therapy may restore cardiac neural regulation dysfunction in diabetic individuals with foot...
Effects of hyperbaric oxygen therapy on circulating interleukin-8, nitric oxide, and insulin-like growth factors in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus.
Abstract: The potential benefits of hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) have been reported in diabetic patients with foot ulcers. However, the roles of HBOT on wound healing-associated growth factors and inflammatory mediators are not completely understood in diabetes...
Counterpoint: hyperbaric oxygen for diabetic foot wounds is not effective.
Abstract: Diabetic foot ulceration is common, affecting 1.0%-4.1% of diabetic persons per year and up to 25% in a lifetime. Diabetic foot ulcers are multifactorial in origin, and many are slow to heal and/or are complicated by infection, frequently leading to...
[Long-term evaluation of chronic diabetic foot ulcers, non-healed after hyperbaric oxygen therapy].
Abstract: To assess the effect of systemic hyperbaric oxygen therapy in chronic diabetic lower limb lesions, non-healed after this adjunctive treatment, a retrospective controlled study was undertaken. From 1990 to 2003, 96 patients demonstrating chronic Wagner grades...
Is hyperbaric oxygen therapy effective for the management of chronic wounds?
Abstract: Gray, Ratliff, , , , , , , (). Is hyperbaric oxygen therapy effective for the management of chronic wounds? Journal of wound, ostomy, and continence nursing : official publication of The Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nurses Society,...
[Oxygen and wound healing].
Abstract: It has long been recognized that normal healing is dependent on the oxygen gradient in the wound Hypoxia can slow or arrest the healing process and augments the risk of infection. While hypoxia triggers neoangiogenesis, normal tissue oxygen pressures are...
A retrospective study of patients with diabetes mellitus after partial foot amputation and hyperbaric oxygen treatment.
Abstract: Armstrong, Lavery, , , , , , , (). A retrospective study of patients with diabetes mellitus after partial foot amputation and hyperbaric oxygen treatment. The Journal of foot and ankle surgery : official publication of the American College of Foot and Ankle...
Influences of hyperbaric oxygen on blood pressure, heart rate and blood glucose levels in patients with diabetes mellitus and hypertension.
Abstract: We investigated the influences of hyperbaric oxygen (HBO(2)) on systolic blood pressure (SBP), diastolic blood pressure (DBP), heart rate (HR) and blood glucose level (BGL). Forty one patients with hypertension (HTN), diabetes mellitus (DM), HTN and DM...